Some reflections on racial profiling.

Measuring Racial Profiling

What if racial profiling were useful? Even, perhaps, very useful? Are the costs of racial profiling so significant that racial profiling should be banned? Courts and commentators do not ask these questions; indeed, they rarely, if ever, acknowledge that racial profiling may be useful. This paper explores what costs police would have to justify, and how they might do so in order to use racial pr...

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Assessing Racial Profiling More Credibly

For many individuals, traffic stops are the most frequent interaction they have with police. Since the I-95 “turnpike” studies of the mid-1990s, which were primarily motivated by the widespread use of drug-courier profiles in highway enforcement along trafficking corridors, public concern has grown that urban traffic stops may also be plagued by racial profiling. Given this concern, more than 4...

Zarathrustrian Mind: Some Comparative Reflections on the Philosophy of Zarathrustra

This paper deals with an essential problem which the modern western thinker faced with and tried to find a solution for that in the benefit of modern humanity. This problem is human reason and his free mind. The author tries here to go back to Zarathrustrian concept of mind and bring forth some fresh reflections in a comparative way. This will let him to evaluate in the main the view that argue...

Detecting Racial Profiling in Minneapolis Traffic Stops: A New Approach

Being singled out for special attention from the police because of your racial or ethnic identity, rather than your actions, seems profoundly inconsistent with the principle of equal treatment under the law. Yet some racial and ethnic groups, most notably African Americans, have protested what they perceive as manifestly unequal treatment from law enforcement agencies. One area of law enforceme...